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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Lego 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V set on sale

On Costco's Canadian website, I found this Lego set on sale. It's the Lego Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V set 21309. This set normally retails for $149.99 CDN but Coscto.ca has it on sale for only $118.99 CDN before tax with free shipping. That's just under 20% off.

Normally, I'd buy a comparable Lepin version of the set, but when I checked Aliexpress, the cheapest knockoff set of the Saturn V was still priced at around $104 CDN. The Lepin version of the Saturn V is 37003. Here's a sample listing:

I would have expected that the Saturn V bootleg price should be closer to $50 CDN. With such a small price difference between the original Lego set and the Lepin bootleg set, I decided to go with the Lego set this time. This set has 1969 pieces, which works out to only 6 cents per piece. These days, most Lego sets cost about 10 cents per piece, so this set is a really good deal. I bought the set 2 days ago and it arrived today!

Unfortunately I won't have time to build it this year, so it will have to wait until 2019. I'll post pics and a review then. Thanks for looking!